We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?

In this day and age it's really stupid to be stupid about financial matters. It doesn't do you any good to make money if you don't know what to do with it other than spend it.

We've witnessed history in the making.

Creating the Minerva Awards. I really have enjoyed that. I have to say that I moaned and groaned about this job but the way I have it now, I enjoy everything about it... I enjoy giving people service opportunities.

It takes time to get to the top, and that's good - because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay there.

The most important thing we can tell young people is not to be an imitation of somebody else. That their life is special. They are the creator of their life and their way and find something that they enjoy doing that doesn't even feel like work. It feels like a passion. And then just by doing that and bringing that to the world, they become architects of change.

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.